Tweets and Tubes, Flickr and Friends, Gadgets and Widgets

The IJ's gone social! We understand you may not want to constantly check our site to see when the latest news happens. That's fine -- we're happy to come to you, where you spend your time on the Web. You can interact with us, too, by submitting news tips and offering feedback, by uploading photos to share or for us to publish online and in the paper, or by submitting video that we can link to or use with our stories on the Web.

Twitter

Follow us on Twitter and get updates via the Web, text messaging on your phone or instant messages:

Our main feed -- with popular stories, blogs and the daily poll -- is staff monitored. Offer tips and feedback and get insights into the IJ: http://www.twitter.com/marinij

Or just check out the photostream of our IJ photographers here -- and add us as a contact so you can see when new photos are posted and to comment on them: http://www.tinyurl.com/ijflickr/

Facebook

See popular stories, entertainment, opinion, sports and blogs, along with Flickr and YouTube updates. Write on our wall, discuss stories and Marin news, and become a fan here: www.tinyurl.com/ijfacebook

FriendFeed

As the IJ posts tweets to Twitter, photos to Flickr and videos to YouTube, FriendFeed streams it all into one place with the most recent additions at the top. You can comment on any item, and you can share with your friends. Add the IJ to the list of friends you follow: http://friendfeed.com/marinij

FriendFeed is also the host of our Marin County room. Here you can share articles, blog posts, photos, video and more with each other and comment on what you see and read. We're just a host at this room, so IJ content there is minimized unless YOU put it there! Join our room at http://friendfeed.com/rooms/marincounty

Gadgets & Widgets

For Mac users, we're testing out our Dashboard widget. For now we're just streaming in local news, but we're planning a big upgrade. You'll need OS X 10.4 or newer. Download the widget here: http://tinyurl.com/3hfvnb

If you're a Google user and have a custom Google home page, check out our Google Gadget. It includes the latest news stories from Marin, sports, opinion, lifestyles and business, as well as the most popular. It's also fully customizable to show from three to 15 stories with long, short or no description. Add our Gadget to your Google or iGoogle page here: http://tinyurl.com/ijgadget